No , don't forget he'll want to "become more human" so he'll get drunk , stagger back to his kennel , throw up , get confused climb onto the captains chair, throw up again , THEN take a shit on it... and promptly fall asleep for 12 hours.
Not everyone wants to watch the Sci Fi equivalent of a morality play or a sociology lecture. Sometimes its nice to watch some ass get kicked instead of "lets discuss this in my ready room" followed by 10 minutes of interminable hand wringing and "but the prime directive says we can't shoot anyone who's attacking us , we have to feel their pain and understand where they're coming from".
Gimme a f*cking break.
IMO this is a case of not thinking about whether something should be done just because it could be
done. If your cruise control or electronic throttle fails then in the worst case scenario you just put the car in neutral and coast to the side of the road. If your drive by wire steering fails you could be heading straight for an 18 wheeler and be able to do nothing about it except break as hard as you can (assuming the computer for those hasn't failed also!) People may argue that it all works fine in the aviation industry in fly by wire aircraft such as airbus and the 777 but aircraft are subjected to expert maintenance by engineers and 40,000 feet up is a relatively benign enviroment for machines. Cars are maintained by grease monkies (especially if they're old bangers) and have to enjoy rain, salt, rocks, driving across fields etc and frequently go wrong. Would I trust my life to a cars computer? No way.
Javascript can't be used outside of a web browser. Ergo its a toy language. If you want to
argue the toss go out and write a word processor
or even better a device driver in it. Its good for what it is , but powerful? Do me a favour...
Yes , but don't forget this is Open Source! Any arguments about bloatware or bugs that are levelled against IE or
Netscape simply do not apply when we're in the holy domain of the GPL.
Tony Blair might be good with words , but when it comes to deeds he's bloody useless. To use an old phrase , he's all mouth and no trousers. In the last election he promised to fix everything (don't they always) but so far he's delivered on NONE of his major election manifesto promises.
Of course like sheep everywhere the British public don't mind because as soon as a politician comes out with words of more than 2 syllables and smiles a lot they stop bleating and go back to cheweing grass as they feel intellectually overwhelmed. Those of us with a brain who can see
whats going on are too small a minority to make much of a difference as all the dimwits vote for Mr Smiley Guy at the ballot box.
By the time anyone on a dial up modem has finished
downloading this "service pack" SP2 will be out.
Why do software companies (not just MS) assume
that everyone is connected to a T1 line these
days? Are they so desperate to flog their 2nd
rate internet tools that wish to force people to
somehow upgrade by making their lives hell if
they don't? I'm sure broadbands not a problem if
you live near a major city , but what if you live
in a small village halfway up a mountain and
the nearest cable is 20 miles away and your
analogue phone line can just about support speech
never mind ADSL?
Sometimes I really think these technologists in their ivory towers in Seattle and Silicon Valley
need a hefty dose of reality.
You're forgetting one thing. US law doesn't rule the internet. Just because you might not be able to do something in your country online doesn't mean the rest of us who don't live in the US have to worry. Why is that americans CONSISTENTLY forget that they are not the centre of the universe and that the internet is worldwide now.
Maybe your vision will come true in the states , but I can assure you it won't happen everywhere.
What happened to choice? What happened to your
in car tape/CD deck is probably a better question.
And if you move to a small isolated town what the
hell do you expect?? You should think yourself lucky the place HAS 3 stations.
Ok , I know the story was about the funeral but
others have expressed their sentiments far better
than I could. Anyway , I was wondering , is anyone
undertaking or if not wouldn't it be a good idea
for someone to write some sort of generalised
client that could be used with a range of these
types of graphical 3D MUDs? That way you wouldn't
need a different client for each game but the
companies could still make money buy charging you
for an account. What I'm thinking of I guess is
a 3D graphical version of telnet.
I think most Metallica fans became "former" the day
the Load album was released. They haven't made a
good album since the black album and even that
was tame compared to their older stuff.
Testing with liquid N2 is your daily job? Yeah right. I can just see your boss saying "hey , how can we speed up our computers , I know , lets rip
them open and immerse them in liquid nitrogen".
Pull the other one , its got bells on.
Graphics chips are more closely tied in with
the hardware on the board vis-a-vis clock
speed than CPU's are on the motherboard. You can't
just up the internal clock speed of a graphics
chip and leave everything else unaffected like
you can with an x86 CPU. Also it would require
people to REALLY understand what they're doing
rather than just setting some jumpers , dumping
the chip in something cold and making out that
they're some kind of electronics wizard.
I mean , its not like boosting the horsepower of
a car and having a blast burning up some guy at
the lights. Yeah , so your computer runs faster,
what you gonna do , get your mates around and give them a demo of how fast the linux kernel
compiles now? Gimme a break. Overclockers are
really sad dudes who need to get out more.
Yeah , and as we all know , windows is sooo well
written there'll never be another backdoor they
could use to get hold of your stuff , oh no , won't
ever happen , never...
Are your friends as paranoid as you about people
reading their email? Or are you all members of
some terrorist group?
Don't forget to put a scrambler on your telephone
while you're at it and buy some dark glasses and
a wide brimmed hat for when you go out too.
Its just a wild guess but maybe theye didn't do any heavy crypto because that wasn't the point of
the article and because only a small percentage of people could understand or would be interested
in the maths behind it. I had enough trouble just following that "simple" stuff.
"Blum-Blum-Shub" ?? You've gottta be kidding me!Sounds like something out of a Sesame Street
nonsense rhyme.
...anyone who has so much time on their hands to read a book about a text editor needs to get out
more or needs more work to do. I learnt about 10 commands in vi 10 years ago and thats all I've ever
needed. I have better things to do than learn how to copy a block into a different file in vim etc
because I can do that using X windows cut & paste.
Hey , maybe you can write a database in some built
in scripting language , who the fuck cares? And apart from some 13 year old geek sitting in his
bedroom on a saturday night cos he's got no mates
who the hell would bother to try??
Just my 2ps worth
1) Crew must visit strange planet/have strange encounter every episode.
2) At least 1 member of the crew must be emotionally retarded (eg vulcan, android, hologram) but must slowly discover emotion through the series arc.
3) At least 1 main member of the crew must be an alien which requires daft latex prosthetics.
4) At least one member of the crew must be "the maverick" who acts like an irresponsible teenager
but is usually proved right apart from the "maverick gets it wrong" episode which must appear once each series.
5) Intelligent plot round up not required, simply solve every difficuly situation with some technological wizardy and a dash of technobabble added as flavouring.
6) All personal problems with the crew can be solved with a 2 minute chat with the captain in their ready room.
7) Tachyons are your friend.
8) No matter what era you set the series in the same old technology must appear , simply change the set a bit to make it look old or cutting edge to suit.
9) Never , I repear NEVER show any signs of originality in your script. If you can rehash an
idea thats been done 2 dozens times before then use it.
Slashdot Mirror
Give an example because I think you're trolling.
No , don't forget he'll want to "become more human" so he'll get drunk , stagger back to his kennel , throw up , get confused climb onto the captains chair, throw up again , THEN take a shit on it... and promptly fall asleep for 12 hours.
Not everyone wants to watch the Sci Fi equivalent of a morality play or a sociology lecture. Sometimes its nice to watch some ass get kicked instead of "lets discuss this in my ready room" followed by 10 minutes of interminable hand wringing and "but the prime directive says we can't shoot anyone who's attacking us , we have to feel their pain and understand where they're coming from". Gimme a f*cking break.
IMO this is a case of not thinking about whether something should be done just because it could be done. If your cruise control or electronic throttle fails then in the worst case scenario you just put the car in neutral and coast to the side of the road. If your drive by wire steering fails you could be heading straight for an 18 wheeler and be able to do nothing about it except break as hard as you can (assuming the computer for those hasn't failed also!) People may argue that it all works fine in the aviation industry in fly by wire aircraft such as airbus and the 777 but aircraft are subjected to expert maintenance by engineers and 40,000 feet up is a relatively benign enviroment for machines. Cars are maintained by grease monkies (especially if they're old bangers) and have to enjoy rain, salt, rocks, driving across fields etc and frequently go wrong. Would I trust my life to a cars computer? No way.
Javascript can't be used outside of a web browser. Ergo its a toy language. If you want to argue the toss go out and write a word processor or even better a device driver in it. Its good for what it is , but powerful? Do me a favour...
Yes , but don't forget this is Open Source! Any arguments about bloatware or bugs that are levelled against IE or Netscape simply do not apply when we're in the holy domain of the GPL.
Tony Blair might be good with words , but when it comes to deeds he's bloody useless. To use an old phrase , he's all mouth and no trousers. In the last election he promised to fix everything (don't they always) but so far he's delivered on NONE of his major election manifesto promises. Of course like sheep everywhere the British public don't mind because as soon as a politician comes out with words of more than 2 syllables and smiles a lot they stop bleating and go back to cheweing grass as they feel intellectually overwhelmed. Those of us with a brain who can see whats going on are too small a minority to make much of a difference as all the dimwits vote for Mr Smiley Guy at the ballot box.
By the time anyone on a dial up modem has finished downloading this "service pack" SP2 will be out. Why do software companies (not just MS) assume that everyone is connected to a T1 line these days? Are they so desperate to flog their 2nd rate internet tools that wish to force people to somehow upgrade by making their lives hell if they don't? I'm sure broadbands not a problem if you live near a major city , but what if you live in a small village halfway up a mountain and the nearest cable is 20 miles away and your analogue phone line can just about support speech never mind ADSL? Sometimes I really think these technologists in their ivory towers in Seattle and Silicon Valley need a hefty dose of reality.
You're forgetting one thing. US law doesn't rule the internet. Just because you might not be able to do something in your country online doesn't mean the rest of us who don't live in the US have to worry. Why is that americans CONSISTENTLY forget that they are not the centre of the universe and that the internet is worldwide now. Maybe your vision will come true in the states , but I can assure you it won't happen everywhere.
What happened to choice? What happened to your in car tape/CD deck is probably a better question. And if you move to a small isolated town what the hell do you expect?? You should think yourself lucky the place HAS 3 stations.
Ok , I know the story was about the funeral but others have expressed their sentiments far better than I could. Anyway , I was wondering , is anyone undertaking or if not wouldn't it be a good idea for someone to write some sort of generalised client that could be used with a range of these types of graphical 3D MUDs? That way you wouldn't need a different client for each game but the companies could still make money buy charging you for an account. What I'm thinking of I guess is a 3D graphical version of telnet.
How about the laser mirror left on the surface that is still in use today by observatories around the world?
I think most Metallica fans became "former" the day the Load album was released. They haven't made a good album since the black album and even that was tame compared to their older stuff.
Well they got your replying didn't they? And at least they were on topic which is more than your post is.
Testing with liquid N2 is your daily job? Yeah right. I can just see your boss saying "hey , how can we speed up our computers , I know , lets rip them open and immerse them in liquid nitrogen". Pull the other one , its got bells on.
I'm at something called "work". I get paid to sit in front of this beige box. You should try it something.
No one cares. Why don't you get a life instead and go clock some women instead of CPUs?
Graphics chips are more closely tied in with the hardware on the board vis-a-vis clock speed than CPU's are on the motherboard. You can't just up the internal clock speed of a graphics chip and leave everything else unaffected like you can with an x86 CPU. Also it would require people to REALLY understand what they're doing rather than just setting some jumpers , dumping the chip in something cold and making out that they're some kind of electronics wizard.
I mean , its not like boosting the horsepower of a car and having a blast burning up some guy at the lights. Yeah , so your computer runs faster, what you gonna do , get your mates around and give them a demo of how fast the linux kernel compiles now? Gimme a break. Overclockers are really sad dudes who need to get out more.
Yeah , and as we all know , windows is sooo well written there'll never be another backdoor they could use to get hold of your stuff , oh no , won't ever happen , never...
Are your friends as paranoid as you about people reading their email? Or are you all members of some terrorist group? Don't forget to put a scrambler on your telephone while you're at it and buy some dark glasses and a wide brimmed hat for when you go out too.
Its just a wild guess but maybe theye didn't do any heavy crypto because that wasn't the point of the article and because only a small percentage of people could understand or would be interested in the maths behind it. I had enough trouble just following that "simple" stuff. "Blum-Blum-Shub" ?? You've gottta be kidding me!Sounds like something out of a Sesame Street nonsense rhyme.
...anyone who has so much time on their hands to read a book about a text editor needs to get out more or needs more work to do. I learnt about 10 commands in vi 10 years ago and thats all I've ever needed. I have better things to do than learn how to copy a block into a different file in vim etc because I can do that using X windows cut & paste. Hey , maybe you can write a database in some built in scripting language , who the fuck cares? And apart from some 13 year old geek sitting in his bedroom on a saturday night cos he's got no mates who the hell would bother to try?? Just my 2ps worth
1) Crew must visit strange planet/have strange encounter every episode. 2) At least 1 member of the crew must be emotionally retarded (eg vulcan, android, hologram) but must slowly discover emotion through the series arc. 3) At least 1 main member of the crew must be an alien which requires daft latex prosthetics. 4) At least one member of the crew must be "the maverick" who acts like an irresponsible teenager but is usually proved right apart from the "maverick gets it wrong" episode which must appear once each series. 5) Intelligent plot round up not required, simply solve every difficuly situation with some technological wizardy and a dash of technobabble added as flavouring. 6) All personal problems with the crew can be solved with a 2 minute chat with the captain in their ready room. 7) Tachyons are your friend. 8) No matter what era you set the series in the same old technology must appear , simply change the set a bit to make it look old or cutting edge to suit. 9) Never , I repear NEVER show any signs of originality in your script. If you can rehash an idea thats been done 2 dozens times before then use it.
Whats XF96Config when its at home?